15 JULY 1916, page 1

During The Week There Has Been A Certain Amount Of

futile and brutal German activity on the English coast. Two small seaplane raids took place last Saturday night and Sunday morning over the East and South Coasts, but without......

German Sea-port Towns Have Been Beflagged In The Past Week

in celebration of a characteristic piece of German nautical stage- management. On July 9th the Gel man submarine Deutschland' arrived from Germany at Norfolk in the United......

The Moral Of This Is That We Must Keep Pushing

on and claiming the advantage due to superiority in numbers, in moral, and in munitions, for all three belong to us now. At the moment of writing Mametz and Tames Wood form the......

The Russian News Is Excellent. During The Past Week The

Russians have made a good deal of pi ogress against the Germans-. on the river Stokhod, and have taken large number of prisoners. It is said, indeed, that in the five days......

This Fact Is Due In The First Place To The

courage, tenacity, and splendid determination of the British and French soldiers. But it is also due to the tremendous strain which has been placed upon the Germans, and to......

The Verdun News Continues Good. We Are Now Approaching The

hundred and fiftieth day of battle, and still the French hold on. The German attacks, though pressed with a ruinous disregard of losses, grow less and less effective. The High......

News Of The Week.

T HE battle of the Somme, a battle destined, it may be, to prove the greatest and most decisive of land encounters, which began a fortnight ago to-day, is still proceeding, and......

In The House Of Commons On Monday Mr. Asquith Made

an important statement on the proposed Irish settlement. The Homo Rule Act, he said, is to be brought into operation as soon as possible after Parliamentary sanction has been......

News From The Italian Front Is Meagre, Birt What There

is is dis- tinctly good. General Cadorna is carefully regaining the lost ground, and has in poi tions of the line obtained the mastery of the enemy in artillery fire.......

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